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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 4797" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pitts </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Arthur Hopking</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 Ranger Bn (Company C) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Private First Class </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>34649162 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1st March 1945 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Belgium Plot G Row 2 Grave 37 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Laurens County, South Carolina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 14.04.1923, Laurens, South Carolina, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Henry Lee Pitts (1899-1984)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Velma (nee Hopkins) Pitts (1899-1970)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>brother PFC Carl L. Pitts KIA 17.11.1944 (also buried Henri Chapelle Plot U, Row 9, Grave 175) awarded BSM</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>4 years high school</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Hickory Tavern High School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>single with dependents upon enlistment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed by Ware Shoals Mfg.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>30.06.1942 draft card Laurens, South Carolina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>19.03.1943 entered service Fort Jackson Columbia, South Carolina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Next of kin - Mr. Henry L. Pitts, Route #1, Ware Shoals, South Carolina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA Irsch-Zerf campaign, Germany </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-pitts.38732/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/38/38732-4aa550c6f9a1bb8303f0af50af02b1da.jpg?1690801217" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-pitts-grave.38731/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/38/38731-00c76406e9237a84b0ca5a91130f7f43.jpg?1690801215" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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